Havana, August 2 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Deputy Minister of Sports Pablo Jústiz stated Tuesday in Havana that his country and Cuba walk hand in hand in athletics, and that is why he is participating in the First International Cuban Sports Fair.

"Today's results are part of the planning and consequence of the past, because the sports policies implemented since the government of Commander Hugo Chávez have allowed us to have good performances in several sports", he said.

Jústiz commented exclusively to Prensa Latina that he personally is one of the beneficiaries of this collaboration because he studied in Santiago de Cuba.

"We came to support this Fair and we intend to establish some agreement or business agreement with a Cuban company or from another country to promote Venezuelan sports," he added.

He recalled that this year they were strengthened in the area of event organization by hosting the Caribbean Baseball Series and the V ALBA Games, which allows them to think about candidacies to host larger tournaments.

"We applied for the Bolivarian Games and the South American Games, and in the future we want to host the Pan American Games again, which we already had in Caracas 1983, and this Fair will also contribute to make Venezuela more visible," said the deputy minister of Sports of the sister nation.

The also director of the National Sports Institute (IND) pointed out that throughout this year they contemplated the participation in some 200 international sports events, 14 of them multidisciplinary, such as the recently concluded South American Beach and Sea Games, where they were equal in first place with Colombia.